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jonetta rose barras
Jan 18, 202226 min read
Children at risk: Foster care in DC is no safe haven
Part 4 of an investigative series by The DC Line supported by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism THE child who...
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jonetta rose barras
Jan 8, 202231 min read
Children at risk: City’s child fatality reviews don’t prevent future deaths as intended
The DC Line conducted a six-month investigation, funded by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism, in pursuit of the...
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jonetta rose barras
Dec 30, 202120 min read
STILL BROKEN, Part 2: Abuse and neglect investigations are opened too late and closed too soon
Part 2 in an investigative series by The DC Line supported by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism. One day in...
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jonetta rose barras
Dec 23, 202125 min read
STILL BROKEN: DC's Child Welfare System, Part 1
Funded by SpotlightDC:Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism and The DC Line Outside the three-story, red brick apartment...
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jonetta rose barras
Dec 20, 20217 min read
Robert White’s uphill climb to the DC mayoral suite
At-large DC Council member and newly announced mayoral candidate Robert White is right in asserting that the District government has...
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jonetta rose barras
Dec 20, 20216 min read
Is Kenyan McDuffie DC’s next top lawyer?
Ward 5 DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie is in the proverbial political catbird seat. He is the legislature’s chair pro tempore; chair of...
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Ben Jealous
Dec 20, 20213 min read
Defending a Democracy in Flames
I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom. And how we can preserve it. Our freedom is threatened. We all need to be paying...
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jonetta rose barras
Nov 14, 20217 min read
Is the fight at the DC arts commission about race or the hustle?
DURING the recent kickoff for his mayoral campaign, Ward 8 DC Council member Trayon White led his supporters in a chant: “We are going to...
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jonetta rose barras
Nov 14, 20217 min read
Walter Smith's 12-year Battle with Care First
The legal battle fought by Walter Smith and his organization DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice to ensure a regional nonprofit...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 16, 20215 min read
Mayor Muriel Bower’s Assault Against Her Own Possible Third Term
“THE contract extensions at issue represent an impermissible exercise of authority by the mayor and therefore may not be deemed...
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Ben Jealous
Sep 16, 20213 min read
Virginia Voters’ Choice: Forward with Voting Rights Champ for Governor or Backward With Team Trump
Virginia’s voters will pick the state’s next governor in November. The choice couldn’t be clearer, and neither could the national...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 6, 20216 min read
IS ANYONE INVESTIGATING CORRUPTION IN DC?
WHEN Mayor Muriel Bowser issued her recent order declaring a “Health Care Resources Emergency,” she tore a page straight from former...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 6, 20217 min read
THE WAYNE TURNAGE AND MEDSTAR SHOW
FOR the past year, Mayor Muriel Bowser and her Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Wayne Turnage have presented a master class in...
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Ben Jealous
Sep 6, 20213 min read
A Red Flag on the West Coast
IN just a few days, California will wrap up its recall election targeting Governor Gavin Newsom, a scheme orchestrated by a Far Right...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 6, 20214 min read
It Is Harder to End a War Than Begin One
TWENTY years ago, on Sept 11, 2001, planes crashed into the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. There was...
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jonetta rose barras
Aug 15, 20218 min read
Low-income DC Condo Owners Fear They Are the Next Surfside. Do Government Officials Care?
“When I go to sleep at night, I kind of sleep with one eye open, so I’m never really sleeping, because I don’t want [the] building to...
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Ben Jealous
Aug 11, 20213 min read
The Attack on the Capitol and the Shameful Right-Wing Republican Response
THE Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the U.S. Capitol was an assault on our democracy. So is the effort by congressional Republicans and...
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jonetta rose barras
Aug 8, 20216 min read
Bullets Flying Everywhere and No Place to Hide in DC
THERE was Ward 4 DC Council member Janeese Lewis George, during last week’s public roundtable on gun violence and Mayor Muriel Bowser’s...
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jonetta rose barras
Jul 19, 20217 min read
HOWARD’S GLITTERATI HUSTLE
HOWARD University President Wayne A. I. Frederick, MD won high praise when he persuaded famed, award-winning actor and alumna Phylicia...
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jonetta rose barras
Jul 19, 20215 min read
Will DC’s Emergency Ever Really End?
THAT’S probably the question many landlords and utility companies asked as the DC Council took action last week that confirmed the public...
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